And of course, 'logging' already has a pretty clearly defined usage. Unless you are planning on going to cut some trees, 'logging' probably isn't the word you want to use with great aunt Edna.
Of course what many people fail to realize is that a large number of (if not most) bloggers don't care if they aren't popular. The blog is there for people who ARE interested, friends and relatives mostly, to know whats up with the blogger, without him having to send possibly unwanted email around, ala the yearly newsletters from family that so many of us love to hate.
That depends on who's writings you read. Many of the founding fathers were of the opinion that while those in the age group to which you refer are the first line, everyone is included in the militia, right down to women and children.
Obviously we send those most able to fight effectively first, but when it comes down to it, every citizen who will fight in support of his country (or at least provide necessary support for those who do fight) is a member of the militia.
Many people are of the opinion that a standing army is somehow wrong for the US, and that may have been true in the early days, but in todays world it is required. I believe it should be deployed much less often and almost certainly not used for humanitarian missions (thats part of what got us into trouble in Somalia), but I don't think we can do without it for very long.
I would be happy to see the US military go back to a more isolationist role, staying out of foreign conflicts except where requested by the UN, and never engaging in action without UN approval.
Maybe we should invest in elite, special-forces style political groups to advance pro-global-community governments in other countries (as well as our own, as the US is at least as guilty of unenlightened self-interest as everyone else).
I like ISPs filtering incoming ports, as long as they will allow the user to turn off filtering if he wants, without charging extra for this 'feature'.
for *any* robot to be able to take effective orders from humans it must also be sentient and self-aware
Not really. To be useful it just has to be able to parse language grammer well enough to understand what you mean, and its not unreasonable to restrict it to a particular grammer.
For instance, to tell a vacuum cleaner what to do, you could say 'Vacuum them living room and the dining room every day. Vacuum the bedroom once a week but not between 8pm and 7am'.
Wasting effort trying to get it to parse 'Do the bedroom when i'm not sleeping, and the living room every day. Oh, and the dining room too.' Would be silly at our current level of technology.
As we learn more and build better tools better recogition will come. Even if we'd had the processor power available, we wouldn't have tried to write all the code included in (for instance) the Red Hat Linux distribution.
If we eliminate the need for manual labor I sure hope we also make birth control manditory. Cuz you know what all those dumb people are going to do when they aren't working 12 hours a day flipping burgers?
Really, the best trick is to anticipate what your customers would click on if they needed to click, and just go ahead and ship it out and bill their credit card.
The goal should be to get people to Mars as quickly as possible, keep them alive there and send more people and supplies to follow them
So very true. I'll bet you could easily find quite a number of qualifed people (or people bright enough to be trained to qualify) that would be willing to drop everything and hop on a one-way flight right now.
If I were not married (or my wife was willing to go too) I would.
I think concerns about simply surviving will keep most of the bordom at bay.
Even a really good base there will require a hell of a lot of upkeep. Consider that the ISS keeps most of its crew busy just staying alive, then consider all the added work one would have to do when everything has to be recycled because there are no regular resupply missions.
I wouldn't be supprised if it would take 10 people just to keep the base running and tending the crops (monitoring the equipment, etc).
Don't take this is discouragement, if I were King of the USA I'd cut every government funded program by 1% and use the money to fund a mars colony (although I'd start with a moon base on the near side of the moon, with at least one project designed to be visible from Earth with the naked eye).
Increased range is great, but if you are covering 36 times the area somewhere like a collage campus I sure hope you can increase the total datarate the device can handle by more than 2x, cuz by the numbers that ends up being something like 15 times slower.
those nodes probably wouldn't even have the capability to decode the signals they would be relaying, the would probably not be useful for determining what the message contained.
Hopefully they will eventually have things that are frequently useful, like logic, math and physics libraries, set up for direct neural interface, so I won't have to ask an independent computer, it'll just be another part of my brain that I use without having to worry about it. Instead of procedurally calculating numbers, my intuative estimates will be extremely accurate, eliminating most need for further calculation.
Not to mention that using the same design over and over allows the flaws (and they will all have many) to be more easily exposed and fixed everywhere, instead of every design having its own unique quirks.
This stuff will be highly caustic and dangerous for tens of thousands of years! There is no container available to hold this waste, and there is literally thousands of tons of it.
Is the waste coming out of a nuclear plant more dangerous than what went into the plant?
It seems to me that if the stuff wasn't particularly dangerous where it was when we found it (buried in the ground, very dilute), then that would probably be a good place to put it back. We dug some big-ass holes to get the stuff in the first place right? Lets grind it up, mix it back in with the material from which it was isolated in the first place and put that shit right back where it came from.
Thats the only thing I could think of, and evidently it worked for the low channels. When I hooked my TV to the cable out let in the wall I got most of the low channels with pretty decent quality (2 and 7 in particular were very bad), but then I discovered that the cable (a 30 footer that ran halfway around the room) was not connected to anything at the other end. The high channels came in after I connected it. Only reason I can think that it worked was because of that antenna in the attic.
This means that you will have about 8 hours without electricity per year.
YOu know, that wouldn't bother me at all.
It just that around here they want to do it 15 minutes at a time every other week, with 5 second blips about twice a week.
I don't mind the computers taking a dive once in a while, but this biweekly power failure thing is going to force me to buy UPS's for every damn machine in the house, and the AS400 will take a big mofo of a UPS.
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Suppose I have rolled 10 six-sided dice.
Oh come on, this is slashdot, you know you want to say '10d6'
And of course, 'logging' already has a pretty clearly defined usage. Unless you are planning on going to cut some trees, 'logging' probably isn't the word you want to use with great aunt Edna.
Of course what many people fail to realize is that a large number of (if not most) bloggers don't care if they aren't popular. The blog is there for people who ARE interested, friends and relatives mostly, to know whats up with the blogger, without him having to send possibly unwanted email around, ala the yearly newsletters from family that so many of us love to hate.
That depends on who's writings you read. Many of the founding fathers were of the opinion that while those in the age group to which you refer are the first line, everyone is included in the militia, right down to women and children.
Obviously we send those most able to fight effectively first, but when it comes down to it, every citizen who will fight in support of his country (or at least provide necessary support for those who do fight) is a member of the militia.
Many people are of the opinion that a standing army is somehow wrong for the US, and that may have been true in the early days, but in todays world it is required. I believe it should be deployed much less often and almost certainly not used for humanitarian missions (thats part of what got us into trouble in Somalia), but I don't think we can do without it for very long.
I would be happy to see the US military go back to a more isolationist role, staying out of foreign conflicts except where requested by the UN, and never engaging in action without UN approval.
Maybe we should invest in elite, special-forces style political groups to advance pro-global-community governments in other countries (as well as our own, as the US is at least as guilty of unenlightened self-interest as everyone else).
I like ISPs filtering incoming ports, as long as they will allow the user to turn off filtering if he wants, without charging extra for this 'feature'.
Filling the room with concrete after unplugging the machine adds another reasonably secure layer.
for *any* robot to be able to take effective orders from humans it must also be sentient and self-aware
Not really. To be useful it just has to be able to parse language grammer well enough to understand what you mean, and its not unreasonable to restrict it to a particular grammer.
For instance, to tell a vacuum cleaner what to do, you could say 'Vacuum them living room and the dining room every day. Vacuum the bedroom once a week but not between 8pm and 7am'.
Wasting effort trying to get it to parse 'Do the bedroom when i'm not sleeping, and the living room every day. Oh, and the dining room too.' Would be silly at our current level of technology.
As we learn more and build better tools better recogition will come. Even if we'd had the processor power available, we wouldn't have tried to write all the code included in (for instance) the Red Hat Linux distribution.
If we eliminate the need for manual labor I sure hope we also make birth control manditory. Cuz you know what all those dumb people are going to do when they aren't working 12 hours a day flipping burgers?
Yup, they'll be makin babies.
Really, the best trick is to anticipate what your customers would click on if they needed to click, and just go ahead and ship it out and bill their credit card.
Yeah man, my 8 bit ISA cards and MFM drives still work just fine, all PC hardware should be maufactured so I can still use them!
To whom do those reactors belong? Could someone go up and take them to the moon to power base there, or would that be theft?
The goal should be to get people to Mars as quickly as possible, keep them alive there and send more people and supplies to follow them
So very true. I'll bet you could easily find quite a number of qualifed people (or people bright enough to be trained to qualify) that would be willing to drop everything and hop on a one-way flight right now.
If I were not married (or my wife was willing to go too) I would.
so they didn't get bored
I think concerns about simply surviving will keep most of the bordom at bay.
Even a really good base there will require a hell of a lot of upkeep. Consider that the ISS keeps most of its crew busy just staying alive, then consider all the added work one would have to do when everything has to be recycled because there are no regular resupply missions.
I wouldn't be supprised if it would take 10 people just to keep the base running and tending the crops (monitoring the equipment, etc).
Don't take this is discouragement, if I were King of the USA I'd cut every government funded program by 1% and use the money to fund a mars colony (although I'd start with a moon base on the near side of the moon, with at least one project designed to be visible from Earth with the naked eye).
AFter the ISS I'm not too keen on international cooperation to get big projects done.
Why not just use digital paper for cards so you can control exactly what the players get? Then you have complete control over the 'odds'.
Increased range is great, but if you are covering 36 times the area somewhere like a collage campus I sure hope you can increase the total datarate the device can handle by more than 2x, cuz by the numbers that ends up being something like 15 times slower.
You have his address right? I don't think anyone would fault you for sending $200 worth of unpleasent thing to his box.
those nodes probably wouldn't even have the capability to decode the signals they would be relaying, the would probably not be useful for determining what the message contained.
Hopefully they will eventually have things that are frequently useful, like logic, math and physics libraries, set up for direct neural interface, so I won't have to ask an independent computer, it'll just be another part of my brain that I use without having to worry about it. Instead of procedurally calculating numbers, my intuative estimates will be extremely accurate, eliminating most need for further calculation.
Not to mention that using the same design over and over allows the flaws (and they will all have many) to be more easily exposed and fixed everywhere, instead of every design having its own unique quirks.
seeing the problems that consistently get reported locally, but not nationally gives you a different perspective.
Funny how that is a good thing with your operating system, but a bad thing with your power plants. Would you rather they didn't report them?
This stuff will be highly caustic and dangerous for tens of thousands of years! There is no container available to hold this waste, and there is literally thousands of tons of it.
Is the waste coming out of a nuclear plant more dangerous than what went into the plant?
It seems to me that if the stuff wasn't particularly dangerous where it was when we found it (buried in the ground, very dilute), then that would probably be a good place to put it back. We dug some big-ass holes to get the stuff in the first place right? Lets grind it up, mix it back in with the material from which it was isolated in the first place and put that shit right back where it came from.
Thats the only thing I could think of, and evidently it worked for the low channels. When I hooked my TV to the cable out let in the wall I got most of the low channels with pretty decent quality (2 and 7 in particular were very bad), but then I discovered that the cable (a 30 footer that ran halfway around the room) was not connected to anything at the other end. The high channels came in after I connected it. Only reason I can think that it worked was because of that antenna in the attic.
the low-grade fighting just doesn't stop. The Israelis
Yeah, but thats the middle east, they've had low grade fighting going on since before there where any Christians to fight with.
This means that you will have about 8 hours without electricity per year.
YOu know, that wouldn't bother me at all.
It just that around here they want to do it 15 minutes at a time every other week, with 5 second blips about twice a week.
I don't mind the computers taking a dive once in a while, but this biweekly power failure thing is going to force me to buy UPS's for every damn machine in the house, and the AS400 will take a big mofo of a UPS.